Robert T. Wilson, Jr. v. Charles Randall Watts, et al.

Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to affirm, without opinion or constitutional analysis, a punitive damages award challenged as grossly excessive under BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559 (1996), State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003), and Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc., 532 U.S. 424 (2001).

Whether due process is violated where a substantial punitive damages award is imposed after trial proceedings infected by the denial of meaningful judicial review, including the refusal to rule substantively on motions for judgment as a matter of law, remittitur, and new trial raising federal constitutional objections.